Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTION
Work of the Public Health Inspectors
A summary of the inspections carried out during the year is given in Table 1.
TABLE 1
Inspections | Revisits | Totals | |
---|---|---|---|
To investigate complaints | 7,583 | 6,977 | 14,560 |
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act | 5,840 | 1,124 | 6,964 |
Infectious diseases | 1,133 | 260 | 1,393 |
Factories Act | 275 | — | 275 |
Housing clearance area scheme | 148 | 7 | 155 |
Houses in multiple occupation | 2,703 | 3,638 | 6,341 |
Qualification certificates | 1,341 | 270 | 1,611 |
Other housing reports | 224 | 8 | 232 |
Long-stay immigrants | 259 | 126 | 385 |
New drainage | 475 | 7,529 | 8,004 |
Hairdressers | 308 | 192 | 500 |
Other | 4,670 | 3,019 | 7,689 |
Totals | 24,959 | 23,150 | 48,109 |
Table 2 gives details of the sanitary operations carried out
during the year.